Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, as Giscard walked out the front gate to his private car, Mitterrand proceeded to the tapestry-lined Salle des Fêtes to greet several hundred invited guests, including local officials from the Charente region where he was born 64 years ago, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac in his capacity as mayor of Paris, and several Communist members of Parliament. Most conspicuous were the scores of Socialists who had assembled to witness their leader's triumph, such as Lionel Jospin, Mitterrand's successor as party chief, and Pierre Mendès-France, 74, former Socialist Premier...
...late 1970s, including Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever and Grease, but Hollywood is now again reeling. The writers have been on strike for almost two months, and the studios last week were bracing for a walkout by directors. The loudest flop has come from Heaven's Gate. The film cost a stunning $43 million to produce, but it has been roasted by critics and ignored by audiences. According to Variety, a new version of the original movie is now earning a combined total of only $1,300 a week at the 26 American theaters where it is playing...
Last week Watt declared that the Administration, contrary to earlier statements, had no immediate plans to give back to state or local governments any land now set aside as national parks and wildlife refuges, including such urban parks as Gateway in New York and New Jersey, and Golden Gate in California...
...inherently unAmerican. Edward Kennedy likes to tell the story of how, during his first campaign for the Senate, his opponent said scornfully in a debate: "This man has never worked a day in his life!" Kennedy says that the next morning as he was shaking hands at a factory gate, one worker leaned toward him and confided, "You ain't missed a goddamned thing...
...five days in shooting- in six days." Universal's Ned Tanen noted that The Deer Hunter, which his studio coproduced, had gone 50% over budget. Sherry Lansing of 20th Century-Fox assured the company's owner-to-be, Marvin Davis, that "there are no Heaven 's Gates here." When Producer Ray Stark was asked what he would do with a self-indulgent director like Cimino, he shot back: "Fire him! Meanwhile, Michelangelo labored to repaint his Sistine Chapel. Five months later, an abridged Heaven's Gate has appeared-with Cimino and U.A. hoping the changes will...